Ania Nowak:
Inflammations
Inflammations
A piece about the solidarizing power of vulnerability
Inflammations deals with chronic pain and fatigue, as well as, relief and sensuality that comes with easing the symptoms. Starting from the question of what expectations we have of hyperfunctional bodies on stage, three performers demand a place for unstable bodies - with all their risks and potentials, in dance as well as in society. Vulnerability becomes a catalyst for a new body, language and care economy.
ChoreogaPHY Ania Nowak Performance Ania Nowak, Angela Alves, Laura Lulika DramaturgY Mateusz Szymanówka SCenograPHY Christopher Füllemann Research/ADVICE Luke Pell LiGHT Aleksandr Prowaliński Sound Justyna Stasiowska COSTUMES Maldoror/Wsiura ProduCtion Micaela Kühn Jara
A production of Ania Nowak in collaboration with TATWERK | Performative Research. Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
ANIA NOWAK’s choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. She develops formats such as live and video performance, installation and text. In her practice Nowak engages with bodies in their nonlinear feeling and thinking capacity to tackle the difficulties of companionship and care in times of a perpetual crisis. Nowak’s work attempts to reimagine the notions of disorder, pleasure, disease, intimacy, pain, sexuality, class and accessibility as sites of binary free living. She collaborates with alternative educational programs in Eastern Europe, such as Kem School in Warsaw and the School of Kindness in Sofia. Her works were presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlinische Galerie, Akademie der Künste and Sophiensæle in Berlin; Nowy Teatr Warsaw, La Casa Encendida Madrid, the Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius, Q21 Vienna and M HKA Antwerp a.o. Nowak lives and works in Berlin.